Monthly Archives: December, 2003

Wireless MAN industry to hit $5B by 2007

CHESTERFIELD, Mo.-Worldwide sales of wireless metropolitan area networks will surge to more than $5 billion a year by 2007, according to a report by...

Boingo gains Wi-Fi roaming agreement with MCI

ASHBURN, Va.-Wireless local area network aggregator Boingo Wireless Inc. reported a roaming agreement with WorldCom Inc., providing the telecommunications provider's MCI customers with remote...

TIM merges GPRS, Wi-Fi services

ROME-Italy's Telecom Italia Mobile launched a new service that connects a cellular phone's subscriber identity module and wireless local area networks using SIM-based authentication....

InterDigital signs new licensee

KING of PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said its InterDigital Technology Corp. subsidiary signed a nonexclusive worldwide royalty-bearing patent license agreement with Taiwan's High Tech...

Astron Wireless releases new antenna series

STERLING, Va.-Astron Wireless Technologies Inc. has released its new DirectConnect series of antennas, including the DirectConnect Omni and Yagi antennas.The new antennas allow the...

Consumers spend more on wireless than other telecom services

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Personal use of mobile devices is on the rise, according to a new survey from IDC.The research group found that consumers spend more...

Turkcell buys majority stake in Ukraine operator

ISTANBUL, Turkey-Turkcell said it entered the Ukrainian mobile market by establishing a new company with the current shareholders of Digital Cellular Communication, which holds...

Pegaso prepays equipment loans to Qualcomm

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced Pegaso Comunicaciones y Sistemas S.A. de C.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pegaso Telecomunicaciones, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican wireless...

Samsung plans Linux-based smart phone for Chinese market

BEIJING-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is planning to sell a Linux-based smart phone, the CDMA i519, in the Chinese market.The phone is the latest wireless...

Verizon collects 3 major IM services with new offering

Verizon Wireless announced a major step in the wireless instant messaging industry, with the first application to combine MSN Messenger, AOL IM and Yahoo!...

Motorola files $2B chip unit IPO

In what might be the first stamp of Edward Zander, new chief executive officer, Motorola Inc. said it has filed with the Securities and...

FCC takes another step toward software-defined radios

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Wednesday proposed allowing the development and use of software-defined radios, also known as cognitive radios."While the amount of available spectrum...

FCC approves spectrum for intelligent transportation system

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that spectrum in the 5.9 GHz band can be used for the intelligent transportation system."The FCC's action carefully...

President Bush signs bill to limit wireless spam

WASHINGTON-President George W. Bush Tuesday signed the CAN-SPAM Act, which includes a move toward prohibiting wireless spam.The bill includes language seeking to ban transmissions...

Jamdat updates bowling game with multiplayer, audio features

LOS ANGELES-Wireless gaming company Jamdat Mobile Inc. announced a sequel to its popular Jamdat Bowling application, a game that will feature enhanced audio and...

Xivo Wireless changes name to Xovix

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-Xivo Wireless Inc. said it will change its name to a similar but slightly different moniker-Xovix Inc. The company said the change...

Centennial reports improved quarterly subscriber adds

WALL, N.J.-Centennial Communications Corp. said it added 2,400 wireless customers in its U.S. operations and 23,300 customers in its Caribbean operations during the company's...

Nextel says FCC has legal authority to approve Consensus Plan

Nextel Communications Inc. filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission that the carrier said demonstrates that the FCC has full legal authority to approve...

Nokia to open N.Y. office next year

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it will open a New York office next year and reassign some of its top management staff to the city.Chief...

DoCoMo sells AOL stakes

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. has sold all its shares in Japanese Internet service provider DoCoMo AOL Inc. to America Online Inc., scaling back its ambitions...

Lattice acquires 13 towers from Vertical RealEstate

CINCINNATI-Lattice Communications L.L.C. has acquired 13 communications towers in the Indianapolis metro area from Vertical RealEstate Inc. Lattice did not disclose the purchase price."The...

FCC denies requests to postpone 900 MHz SMR auction

The Federal Communications Commissions' Auction No. 55 of Specialized Mobile Radio service licenses in the 900 MHz band will take place as scheduled Feb....

Zander selected to lead Motorola

Motorola Inc. bowed to investor clamor for an outsider with the appointment of former Sun Microsystems Inc. president Edward Zander as the new helmsman,...

Subex software to help telecom firms with Sarbanes-Oxley reporting

BANGALORE, India-Software company Subex Systems is marketing INcharge, its revenue assurance solution, as a solution that helps U.S. telecommunications firms comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley...

BellSouth to cut 1,000 jobs

ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. is reportedly planning to cut more than 1,000 jobs, including positions from its previously announced exit from the payphone business, during the...
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